And then a vampire joined the meeting.

I think Alan Ball is a brilliantly creative writer and director. His HBO show Six Feet Under was one of my favorite series of all time and for many years the ring tone on my phone was the show's theme song.  His newest and even more fabulous HBO series, True Blood, is about vampires who co-exist with humans in small-town Louisiana.  The theme song is riveting, and is now my new ring tone. 

Enough of the backstory. The true story I was going to tell is this:  last week my business partner and I were at a very important meeting.  We were trying to make a good impression, and attempting to be all cool and professional. I've discovered that being both cool and professional are hard for me to do at the same time.  In this case, Being Professional means you make sure your phone does not ring during an important meeting.  It means you take the time to double-check your phone before you go into the meeting to make sure it is turned off.  And then you check it one more time.  But I was too busy being cool and forgot to turn my phone off.  See?  Clearly I can't multi-task.

The meeting was going pretty well and the person we were meeting with was in mid-sentence when the True Blood theme song suddenly gushed from my purse. Everyone froze, and there was a shimmer of tension in the room while two pairs of eyes looked at me like "can't you learn how to be both cool and professional and turn your effing phone off when you're in an important meeting??" But before I could exhale, the guy we were meeting with started to smile and says "Hey, isn't that the theme from True Blood?" 

Sometimes being professional is way overrated.

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[The Younger Desiree... :)]

Always overrated...